DGuru wrote:
I seem to get the "Big picture" even easier than the average person if it relates to my special interests.
Politics, issues of social justice, and related things like morality, philosophy, ethics fall under this.
For a long time when I was in denial over Asperger's I would remind myself of how I could get the big picture of some policy impact or moral question when others could not. Ironically I didn't understand the "Big picture" of what "the big picture" is and defined the very term as it applied within my interests. An example-How will China become the next superpower when global warming projects that many of its major cities and economic centers are going to experience severe flooding?
Anyone else have a similar experience with grasping the big picture easier even than NTs if it's something you're really interested in?
Yeah. But it seems to emerge from the bottom up, by connecting a lot of the details together into an all encompassing picture. This causes problems for me because I can't easily communicate the big picture without dragging details into the conversation. And I have difficulty focusing on the key elements and even what would be relevant to an intended audience. This hurts me in my job because the flow of the work environment and company as a whole seems to be keyed into people operating at the right levels of abstraction at the right times, and further, operating at the SAME level of abstraction at the same time. I RARELY talk at the right level of detail, so I am regularly left on the margins.
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02 May 2011, 3:21 am
